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by anthk 16 days ago
Most corporations in the US are legalized mafias. Well, and in Spain and the rest of Europe, almost literally, with bribes and such. Don't ever talk about some practices from El Corte Inglés, La Liga, estate companies, construction sections and tourism and the like. Basically we don't have proper remote working "thanks" to the construction and estate lobbies.

And from media/TV corpos, ahem... Mediaset and Atresmedia, there have been internal wars too. Sometimes even with death threats.

And as I said, not just Spain. Germany, France, the Netherlands, even Iceland has tons of shaddy corporate stuff.

Do you know what you get when corporates do what they want with no consecuences? The South of Italy. Because I'm pretty sure the North of Italy it's a gem... polished with the misery of shaddy business from the South.

For sure they must be tons of money laundering down there. Ditto with some barber shops, smartphone cover/case shops, some laundries, kebabs, TONs of bars and pubs in Spain. I have more than 10 bars around me in less than 100 meters around. Think about it, all of them can't be as profitable except for a major main street where everyone hangs out. On average 1 in 10 or 20 bars in around must be selling more than spirits...

If the common folk has to this to survive, just imagine what a billion based corporation could be doing. And the CEO's, welll... pure psychos and OFC with the profiles you would find around Epstein, and not just with pedophilic tendencies -which is power related, not sex-. The small CEO's will resort to cocaine and night clubs with prostitutes. The big ones... just run away from these people. Seriously.